Sting, Al Green, Tom Hanks, Lily Tomlin Top Kennedy Center 2014 Honors Class

Kennedy Center Honors

STING, AL GREEN, TOM HANKS and LILY TOMLIN will be joined by GEORGE BALLANCHINE associate PATRICIA MCBRIDE to receive the KENNEDY CENTER HONORS in front of PRESIDENT OBAMA and a primetime nationwide audience.

“I guess we made it!” soul singer GREEN told the WASHINGTON POST from MEMPHIS.

“It was a huge surprise, bigger than huge,” TOMLIN admitted  from LOS ANGELES, where she's shooting a new TV series.

The ceremony will take place on DECEMBER 7th in the OPERA HOUSE and will be telecast DECEMBER 30th on CBS.

STING will make his BROADWAY debut as a composer this month with “The Last Ship,” based on his childhood in an English shipbuilding town.

The event raised $6.3 million for the KENNEDY CENTER last yea, according to co-producer GEORGE STEVENS, JR.

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